"Annotated instructor's edition."

Thinking about purposes and audiences -- Planning and shaping -- Drafting and revising -- Writing paragraphs -- Reading and thinking critically -- Writing argument -- Parts of speech and structures of the sentence -- Verbs -- Case of nouns and pronouns -- Pronoun reference -- Agreement -- Using adjectives and adverbs -- Sentence fragments -- Comma splices and fused sentences -- Sentences that send unclear messages -- Conciseness -- Coordination and subordination -- Parallelism -- Variety and emphasis -- Understanding the meaning of words -- Understanding the effect of words -- Spelling and hyphenation -- The period, question mark, and exclamation point -- The comma -- The semicolon -- The colon -- The apostrophe -- Quotation marks -- Other marks of punctuation -- Capitals, italics, abbreviations, and numbers -- Paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting sources -- The process of research writing -- Documenting sources for research writing -- Case study of a student writing research -- Comparing the different disciplines -- Writing about literature and other humanities -- Writing in the social sciences -- Writing in the natural and technological sciences -- Business writing -- Writing essay tests

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